Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. This is beneficial for students who are auditory learners and have weak comprehension skills. This provides multiple means of representation for learners who have difficulties with word recognition and processing skills. A wide variety of books are available to listen to. Audible.com can be used on a smartphone, kindle, or the computer.
Portabook is a lightweight book stand that opens on five different angles. The Portabook holds books open, which is a great reading aid for students with physical disabilities who have trouble manipulating books. The Portabook also angles books and papers, which can be a helpful visual aid for students. It is light and easy to carry, and can also be used to carry paper, pens and pencils as well! This is a helpful aid for students to use at home individually as well as at school while doing classwork.
Kurzweil 3000 Firefly: Literacy and Learning Software by, Jennifer Sanseverino
The Firefly learning software program provides anywhere access to digital, text-based content, supplemented by powerful literacy tools that enable individuals with the cognitive ability, but not the literacy skills to achieve their academic or personal goals. Firefly is the newest member of the Kurzweil Educational Systems product line and is capable of highlighting words as you read, which makes following along easier. Firefly includes high quality text-to-speech voices in which users can adjust the text-to-speech rate and highlighting options with ease. The app can read documents with images and rich text formatting. Firefly is a simple and easy way for teachers to distribute accessible instructional materials to students with dyslexia, physical disabilities, and English Language Learners. The Firefly is easily accessible and can be used individually on an iPad or in the classroom, wherever you have internet connection!
Price: approximately $1,000 individually
download the app for a free trial
NEW!! Per user licenses – a great way to quickly implement Kurzweil 3000 and firefly for targeted populations.
Site Licenses – provides students in special education with assistive technology throughout your school campus, while allowing those in general education access, too. Schools with enrollment below 1,500 can purchase an unlimited site license for $4,000!*
NEW!! District Licensing – offers a cost-efficient way for districts to provide comprehensive support system-wide with an award-winning UDL literacy solution.
Reading Guide- Kristina Diaz $12.99 for a 6-pack. http://www.therapro.com/Big-Reading-Guides-P322221.aspx
These reading guiders come in various colors and are placed to cover 1/4 of an 8 1/2'' x 11'' paper. They are used to highlight specific paragraphs of a page to help the reader focus. Any student who skips around and has trouble reading line by line can benefit from using reading guiders. They can be used in any environment that includes reading whether it be at home or in school. Students can use the reading guider during free reading time, during a lesson, or when completing homework.
Highlighting Tape allows students to highlight sections of text, math problems, definitions and more. Students can use these small pieces of tape to highlight important parts of text or other important things in their reading to help them remember the important and key information.
Students who are struggling with comprehension can benefit from using this tape. When a student is reading, they can use this tap to highlight important parts of the text that they will need to reference later. Students who have trouble remembering important information can benefit from using this tape.
This tape can be used during class time and independent class time. Students can use this tape when they are reading and doing school work. This tape can be used in the classroom and home environment.
This tape can be used during many different tasks. Students can use this tape when they are reading textbooks. This is helpful because students can make notes in textbook without writing in the book. Teachers can use this tape to highlight important information they want students to remember when students are reading text or learning new material.
Characteristics: Students that would benefit from using sticky notes have a tendency to lack in the area of organization. Sticky Notes can be used as helpful reminders for students to stay on tasks as well as organize important information. Also, students that struggle remembering facts can use the sticky notes to record quick, important information or questions that they may during reading or the given task.
Environment: Sticky Notes may be used in any subject throughout the school day. Sticky Notes are more so used during reading time whether it is shared reading or independent reading. Sticky Notes can essential be used for anything.
Tasks:Sticky Notes are a great tool to use with students that struggle with multple aspects of reading. For instance, sticky notes can provide a marker for remembering certain pages in a book, recording questions while reading, and writing important information. Sticky notes provides organizational assistance to students that have trouble organizing their thoughts and ideas.
Kindle: (AT Hardware) Price: $119.00
-The Kindle is a lightweight portable book reader with a built-in light in some models, which illuminates the screen to provide the perfect reading experience. Students who would benefit from the Kindle are students who struggle with fine motor skills and turning pages. In some versions of the Kindle a page can be turned by clicking a button on the side or even tapping the screen with a finger. Kindles are appropriate in many environments. In the classroom, students who have these fine motor skill needs can use their Kindle to read a book for class. The Kindle can also be used at home or anywhere on the go due to its lightweight and easy to carry build. The Kindle can help students who have difficulty holding a book, textbook, or newspaper and also makes the task of turning the page easier.
(Amanda Kazin) Product: Iris Notes Pen Iris Notes Pen Cost: $129.00 Description: The Iris Pen scans text and allows the user to export the text into another document. It also can record speech and text providing the information by means of sound. Characteristics of Student: This would assist a student who needs extra auditory support while reading. Environment: The Iris Note pen can be used in any environment across any curriculum area. Task: Students would use this device to scan text or record what a teacher is saying during a lesson.
(Molly Mazala)
Debra Schwarzl
WEB 2.0 - Character Scrapbook
Character Scrapbook
Allows the readers to response by analyzing any characters in any book. Children get to draw features of the character, such as hair, eyes, nose, and mouth and skin color. Then the child can add up to 10 things about the character who could be a human or even an animal. The text may be challenging for some students to read it is simple with guidance that children could pick up and understand. It helps students understand the text in their own words. This could help struggling readers.
Free - Character Scrapbook
UDL Editions/ UDL Bookbuilder (CAST) (Trevor M.):
Description:(High Tech) This high tech website is a great resource that teachers and students can use to create online books as well as have online resources or books read aloud to them.
Characters: Students who may benefit from this resource/tool would like to have information presented to them in auditory and visual form. For instance, a student or teacher can access sample stories that can be shown in class. The students can visually view the text as well as the resource can read it aloud. This resource provides comprehension checks and highlights important information.
Environment: This resource/tool can be used in a classroom setting or at home. Students can read and view books in the comfort of their home as well as school.
Tasks: This will help students receive information in multiple ways, provide comprehension checks to make sure students understand the information, and highlight important vocabulary words as well as define them later in the glossary provided
High Tech item: Start-to-Finish
Price: $2,565 (unlimited site license) Link: https://www.starttofinishbooks.com/mobi/ Brief description: This website breaks down books that are typically for a higher grade level into a version that students of lower reading levels can comprehend. This site also will read every word in the book to the student if the student clicks on every word. Student characteristics: This website would be great for students who are struggling readers. It allows students who are on lower reading levels to still read book classics, which are on a higher reading level. Environment: This website would be great in special education classrooms where there are struggling readers. It could be used in general education classrooms as well. Task: Students can read books that are deemed on a higher reading level for students that may be struggling readers. Students also have the option to have the book read to them. (Megan Herman) AT Hardware: Intel Reader
Price: $599 Link: http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/intel_reader/_details/id_241/intel_reader_plus_capture_station_bundle.html Brief description: This Intel reader scans and reads text aloud to people. Student characteristics: This Intel reader would be great for students with visual impairments, blindness, or reading disabilities. Environment: This AT hardware would be helpful in both general and special education classrooms, as well as at home. Students could use this while out and about in everyday life as well. Task: Students who struggle with reading or have visual impairments can benefit from this tool by scanning anything in print. Students can have this AT read books or any other text that they are struggling to read themselves aloud. (Megan Herman)
WordTalk (High Tech)
Description: WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word. It is located in your toolbar. It will speak the text of the word document and highlight each word as it goes.
Cost: FREE!
Source: www.wordtalk.org.uk
Characteristics: Students who may benefit from this tool may struggle with reading. Also, students who need help editing and revising their word document may benefit from this because they can hear their document read aloud to them.
Environment: This tool could be used in the classroom setting and in the students' home setting.
Tasks: Students can have their whole document read aloud to them. Also, they can convert their document into an mp3, so students who have difficulty with speech can present their document through the mp3.
(Kayla Grout)
Name- Justin Schwendeman High Tech Tool- Talk Points Cost- $69.99 for 5 Description- This tool allows for students or teachers to record a message on one of these points and then have their point or statement read back to them. It allows for up to 10 seconds of recording Characteristics- Students who may have difficult remember directions can use these when reading a story. They can have directions read to them and record them on each on of the buttons. As they are working through an assignment they can hit the button instead of having to ask again for directions to be read. Environment- This tool could be used in a reading, math, science, or any class. It can also be used in a students home. Tasks- The tasks that students are able to complete using this tool are really endless as they can record anything that they wish to record.
by, Jennifer Sanseverino
Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. This is beneficial for students who are auditory learners and have weak comprehension skills. This provides multiple means of representation for learners who have difficulties with word recognition and processing skills. A wide variety of books are available to listen to. Audible.com can be used on a smartphone, kindle, or the computer.
Price: 1 book a month= $14.95
http://www.audible.com/pap
Portabook
by, Jennifer Sanseverino
Price: $21.95
http://www.onionmountaintech.com/item.php?id=501
Portabook is a lightweight book stand that opens on five different angles. The Portabook holds books open, which is a great reading aid for students with physical disabilities who have trouble manipulating books. The Portabook also angles books and papers, which can be a helpful visual aid for students. It is light and easy to carry, and can also be used to carry paper, pens and pencils as well! This is a helpful aid for students to use at home individually as well as at school while doing classwork.
Kurzweil 3000 Firefly: Literacy and Learning Software
by, Jennifer Sanseverino
The Firefly learning software program provides anywhere access to digital, text-based content, supplemented by powerful literacy tools that enable individuals with the cognitive ability, but not the literacy skills to achieve their academic or personal goals. Firefly is the newest member of the Kurzweil Educational Systems product line and is capable of highlighting words as you read, which makes following along easier. Firefly includes high quality text-to-speech voices in which users can adjust the text-to-speech rate and highlighting options with ease. The app can read documents with images and rich text formatting. Firefly is a simple and easy way for teachers to distribute accessible instructional materials to students with dyslexia, physical disabilities, and English Language Learners. The Firefly is easily accessible and can be used individually on an iPad or in the classroom, wherever you have internet connection!
Price: approximately $1,000 individually
download the app for a free trial
Reading Guide- Kristina Diaz
$12.99 for a 6-pack.
http://www.therapro.com/Big-Reading-Guides-P322221.aspx
These reading guiders come in various colors and are placed to cover 1/4 of an 8 1/2'' x 11'' paper. They are used to highlight specific paragraphs of a page to help the reader focus. Any student who skips around and has trouble reading line by line can benefit from using reading guiders. They can be used in any environment that includes reading whether it be at home or in school. Students can use the reading guider during free reading time, during a lesson, or when completing homework.
Highlighter Tape
http://www.onionmountaintech.com/item.php?id=639 - $7.25
Highlighting Tape allows students to highlight sections of text, math problems, definitions and more. Students can use these small pieces of tape to highlight important parts of text or other important things in their reading to help them remember the important and key information.
Students who are struggling with comprehension can benefit from using this tape. When a student is reading, they can use this tap to highlight important parts of the text that they will need to reference later. Students who have trouble remembering important information can benefit from using this tape.
This tape can be used during class time and independent class time. Students can use this tape when they are reading and doing school work. This tape can be used in the classroom and home environment.
This tape can be used during many different tasks. Students can use this tape when they are reading textbooks. This is helpful because students can make notes in textbook without writing in the book. Teachers can use this tape to highlight important information they want students to remember when students are reading text or learning new material.
BrandiZaccaria
Sticky Notes (Trevor M.):
Description: Sticky Notes are a great low-tech tool that students and teachers can use with any assigment or task. Sticky Notes are used to mark pages in reading books, record questions, and/or writing down important information.
Link:
http://www.officemax.com/office-supplies/sticky-notes-flags/post-it-notes-flags/post-it-super-sticky-notes/product-prod1810100
Kindle: (AT Hardware)
Price: $119.00
-The Kindle is a lightweight portable book reader with a built-in light in some models, which illuminates the screen to provide the perfect reading experience. Students who would benefit from the Kindle are students who struggle with fine motor skills and turning pages. In some versions of the Kindle a page can be turned by clicking a button on the side or even tapping the screen with a finger. Kindles are appropriate in many environments. In the classroom, students who have these fine motor skill needs can use their Kindle to read a book for class. The Kindle can also be used at home or anywhere on the go due to its lightweight and easy to carry build. The Kindle can help students who have difficulty holding a book, textbook, or newspaper and also makes the task of turning the page easier.
(Amanda Kazin)
Product: Iris Notes Pen
Iris Notes Pen
Cost: $129.00
Description: The Iris Pen scans text and allows the user to export the text into another document. It also can record speech and text providing the information by means of sound.
Characteristics of Student: This would assist a student who needs extra auditory support while reading.
Environment: The Iris Note pen can be used in any environment across any curriculum area.
Task: Students would use this device to scan text or record what a teacher is saying during a lesson.
(Molly Mazala)
Debra Schwarzl
WEB 2.0 - Character Scrapbook
Allows the readers to response by analyzing any characters in any book. Children get to draw features of the character, such as hair, eyes, nose, and mouth and skin color. Then the child can add up to 10 things about the character who could be a human or even an animal. The text may be challenging for some students to read it is simple with guidance that children could pick up and understand. It helps students understand the text in their own words. This could help struggling readers.
Free - Character Scrapbook
High Tech item: Start-to-Finish
Price: $2,565 (unlimited site license)
Link: https://www.starttofinishbooks.com/mobi/
Brief description: This website breaks down books that are typically for a higher grade level into a version that students of lower reading levels can comprehend. This site also will read every word in the book to the student if the student clicks on every word.
Student characteristics: This website would be great for students who are struggling readers. It allows students who are on lower reading levels to still read book classics, which are on a higher reading level.
Environment: This website would be great in special education classrooms where there are struggling readers. It could be used in general education classrooms as well.
Task: Students can read books that are deemed on a higher reading level for students that may be struggling readers. Students also have the option to have the book read to them.
(Megan Herman)
AT Hardware: Intel Reader
Price: $599
Link: http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/intel_reader/_details/id_241/intel_reader_plus_capture_station_bundle.html
Brief description: This Intel reader scans and reads text aloud to people.
Student characteristics: This Intel reader would be great for students with visual impairments, blindness, or reading disabilities.
Environment: This AT hardware would be helpful in both general and special education classrooms, as well as at home. Students could use this while out and about in everyday life as well.
Task: Students who struggle with reading or have visual impairments can benefit from this tool by scanning anything in print. Students can have this AT read books or any other text that they are struggling to read themselves aloud.
(Megan Herman)
WordTalk (High Tech)
Description: WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word. It is located in your toolbar. It will speak the text of the word document and highlight each word as it goes.
Cost: FREE!
Source: www.wordtalk.org.uk
Characteristics: Students who may benefit from this tool may struggle with reading. Also, students who need help editing and revising their word document may benefit from this because they can hear their document read aloud to them.
Environment: This tool could be used in the classroom setting and in the students' home setting.
Tasks: Students can have their whole document read aloud to them. Also, they can convert their document into an mp3, so students who have difficulty with speech can present their document through the mp3.
(Kayla Grout)
Name- Justin Schwendeman
High Tech Tool- Talk Points
Cost- $69.99 for 5
Description- This tool allows for students or teachers to record a message on one of these points and then have their point or statement read back to them. It allows for up to 10 seconds of recording
Characteristics- Students who may have difficult remember directions can use these when reading a story. They can have directions read to them and record them on each on of the buttons. As they are working through an assignment they can hit the button instead of having to ask again for directions to be read.
Environment- This tool could be used in a reading, math, science, or any class. It can also be used in a students home.
Tasks- The tasks that students are able to complete using this tool are really endless as they can record anything that they wish to record.